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My DVD Player HDD Case

ComputerWizKid

ComputerWizKid

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I found one of those infamous China Small DVD players in the trash. Luckily mine is mostly metal (The Chassis is all metal but the faceplate is plastic) and not all plastic like the newer $20 DVD Players, I could get the player to power up but the laser was dead. So I removed all of the Junk (Except the power supply and the front panel) I replaced the bulging caps in the power supply (Luckily I already had a couple from my latest recap project) and it lives as an external Hard Disk Drive Case (I am using one of those USB to ATA IDE/SATA adapters to plug the drive into my USB 2.0 Port on my PC)
The brackets I used are 1" L brackets that I glued to the bottom of the case the drive then screws to the L Bracket
Anyone else into reusing the case from dead electronics and making then something that it was never meant to be?
I was surprised when I took it apart as the DVD Rom part was basically a PC IDE drive (Without the metal cover and a non PC Power connector, the signal connector was a standard IDE Cable though and the power supply outputs +12 & +5Volts @ 2Amps each rail

I just have to get a SATA to USB controller board (Anyone know where to get just the board? I don't want to have to buy an enclosure just for the SATA/USB Board)

The drive is only 160GB (The Drive is dead I was just using it for a template to get where to put the brackets, the drive I am actually going to put in there is a 500GB Seagate)

I also glued the DVD front panel on so it will still look like a DVD player until you look at the back


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Isnt it just a cable? do you really need a board to do SATA to USB?

Great job btw, awesome idea and looks awesome! looks like you have room for one more HDD!! make it a raid nas :biggrin:
 
DesiPower said:
Isnt it just a cable? do you really need a board to do SATA to USB?

Great job btw, awesome idea and looks awesome! looks like you have room for one more HDD!! make it a raid nas :biggrin:
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Actually there is room for only one drive in there (I could of probably fit two if I mounted them the other way but I don't think the internal PSU would power two drives at once)

Anyway I already have one of those adapters but I was hoping for something a little better
 
Why not just put it in a small enclosure meant for hard drives? Neat idea, but seems rather big for just a 3.5" drive.
 
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